Word: mild
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...myriad eyes of teeming, docile Indians turned in mild approval and amaze, last week, upon Mother India's three greatest and most potent sons...
...type. Not forgotten is this item: "Wrote the famous message at the opening of the 2nd Battle of the Marne, July 1918, which marked the turning point of the war, concluding with the words: 'We are going to counter-attack.' " The Bullard valor is concealed beneath a mild, diminutive exterior. Yet the soldierly Bullard conscience might serve as a model for all the retired military, so often and so strongly does it move its possessor to issue grave warnings to all good citizens against the insidious dangers of peace talk and unpreparedness...
Robert Cecil. ". . . his presence was sweet and grave. . . . He was all mild reasonableness-or so it appeared, until he left his chair, stood up, and unexpectedly revealed the stunted discomfort of deformity. Then another impression came upon one-the uneasiness produced by an enigma: what could the combination of that beautifully explicit countenance with that shameful, crooked posture really betoken? He returned to the table, and once more took up his quill; all, once more, was perspicuous serenity...
...Public Health Service saw no cause for panicky fears. In 1918 about 450,000 persons died of influenza. Last week 43 out of 78 principal cities reported the comparatively small death total of 379. Everywhere the disease was mild, not virulent. The mortality rate for influenza is low. Some specialists maintain that death never occurs unless there are complications. The Public Health Service urged sleep, food, exercise, avoidance of crowds...
...panic resulted from the epidemic of mild influenza which for three weeks has spread eastward from California across the continent. Although more than 40,000 people were officially reported sick with the disease and another 200,000 estimated so, the deaths were few. This epidemic has revealed no such virulence as that of 1918. Nonetheless, it was a wise and (with Christmas holidays so near) a convenient move for scores of schools and colleges to close classes last week. Sensible people followed medical advice-to avoid crowds and ill-ventilated places, to exercise well in the open air and sunlight...